“It was spiritual. The spirituality in it is that the deceased was convinced that one day, death would come. He said at the introduction of his sermon that if he was privileged to preach again; because I assigned him to preach maybe once in a year or twice, he would conclude that sermon on death. It is not as people have been insinuating that he didn’t take care of his health. But what we concluded was that it was God because he had yet to complete the sermon when he died. “He told me he bought about N20,000 drugs, and every morning, we went on exercise except Sundays and Saturdays. He was a cardio patient, which he managed for years. That is why I said apart from the elderly care unit, he also went to the cardio section for a follow-up up.” Ogundiya said he would complete the sermon of the late Ogunnusi next Sunday, saying he got inspiration from the script of the sermon prepared by the late preacher.
He said Ogunnusi was not a pastor or deacon in the ECWA church but was known as an elder in the church. Elder Ogunnusi had on Sunday slumped on the pulpit while delivering a sermon on death at the church headquarters in Onikoko area of Abeokuta, Ogun State. The pastor said he saw how the preacher suddenly fell with the microphone in his hands and died on the pulpit. He said he was rushed to a nearby private hospital where he was pronounced dead before taking his corpse to the mortuary at the Federal Medical Centre, Abeokuta.
He explained that three days before his death, Ogunnusi and himself had gone for a medical checkup while the deceased bought the drugs prescribed.